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DECORATIVE TILE. N0. 298,921. Patented May 20, 1884.

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SAVILLION VAN CAMPEN, OF JERSEY CITY, NEIV JERSEY.

ECORATIVE TILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 298,921, dated May 20,188%.

Application filed March 7, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAVILLION VAN CAM- rEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and Stateof New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDecorative Tiles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the production of a decorative tile, as anarticle of manufacture, for panels, wainscoting, articles of furniture,or for any other kind of household ornamentation, and the object of myimprovement is to furnish a tile in repouss work possessing all theartistic excellence of the most expensive class of work of thischaracter, but at a great reduction in the cost and labor ofmanufacture.

Inthe drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is aplan or face view of a tile made according to my improvement,

and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Heretofore this class of ornamentation as applied to metals has eitherbeen accomplished by hand by skilled artisans or by means of engraveddies of steel. Consequently the labor and cost of the production of thisstyle of metal work has limited its use for purposes of generalornamentation.

The purpose of my improvement is to provide for the more economicalmanufacture of this style of work, whereby the ordinary electrotype diesor soft dies may be employed to produce the designs in relief, and thetile in its general appearance may possess the at tractivcness anddesirable qualities of those made by the more expensive methods, asabovementioned.

Let a in the drawings represent a thin sheet of metal, preferably brass,on the under side of which is secured a sheet of coarse, looselywovenpaper, I). This paper backing is of smaller dimensions than the metal,so as to permit of the edges of the metal being bent down and overlapingthe edges of the paper on all its sides, as shown at c, Fig. 2.

In preparing the tile to receive the embossments, if a design in highrelief is to be produced on its surface,I cement the backing b to themetal sheet before clamping down its edges on the paper. This gives morerigidity to the highest parts of the design and prevents the separationof the metal from the paper.

tendency of the thin sheet of metal is to wrinkle or draw beneath theaction of the dies to a greater or less degree, according to theprominence of the embossments produced, and this I overcome by clampingthe edges of the metal sheet down onto the backing, as above stated.

Instead of coarse paper, felt paper, or any other elastic material maybe used to form the body of the tile.

The tile being prepared, as above stated, is

passed under dies to receive the figure or design, d, in relief onitssurface. In accomplishing this I am enabled to use the class of diesknown as soft dies, in place of the pensive steel dies heretoforeemployed to produce repouss brass-work.

In practice I employ as a female and amale die an clectrotype die and adie made of paper.

In ornamenting tiles so prepared where the backing consists of paper ofa light texture, or where no backing is empleyed and a low relief designis to be made, I place on the counterdie a'sheet of soft felt or feltpaper, which forms an elastic bed for the metal sheet. This prevents thethin metal from drawing or wrinkling while receiving the impression.

In constructing tiles according to my improvement the conception of theartist or designer is more accurately carried out in the finer detailsof the relief figures, and the character of the work is bolder andfreer. than where the engraved dies are used.

That I, claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. As a new article of manufacture,a metal faced tile composed of asheet of metal and a sheet of felt or other coarse paper secured together by overlapping the edges of the metal on the paper with reliefdesigns on its surface, as set forth.

2. The process of making metallic-faced tiles which consists in firstsecuring together a sheet of thin metal and a sheet of paper of coarsetexture by overlapping the edges of the metal over the paper and thensubmitting the same to clectrotype dies, as set forth.

SAVILLION VAN C AMPEN.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE W. Horrrno, FRANK CRANE,

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